TBD - assume some type of LiPO though
initially I plan to balance on two outer legs. If this works "I hope" to move onto small 'hops' by throwing all three servo's in the upward direction and then return to a steady state balance.
I plan to use a ArbotiX-M to control all three servo's based on the IMU feed back.
9 Degree of Freedom Razor IMU
3x AX-12+
I came up with the idea of FrogBot a year or two ago (2013ish) as a way to learn how to control some Dynamical servo's in a control loop with an IMU. This being some of the basic's that need to be learned while building a biped robot. I didn't have the funds to buy a fully articulated humanoid robot so I figured this would serve in the mean time. Also it would be a great, fairly simple, platform to try out interesting control ideas, methods and sensors as well as possibly a machine learning approach.
I hope to post more images and code as I progress on this fun little robot project.
Cheers,
Scott